01/06/2017

If anyone shares a love for both beautiful vintage designs and petite florals, they are sure to immediately fall in love with these vintage Laura Ashley wallpapers from the 1970s.

We picked up a trove of these Laura Ashley papers in tandem with a larger collection of retro wallpapers from Canada. Most of the wallpapers from that load were bright, loud, and wild--the kind of papers that you expect from 1970s,--but these Laura Ashley papers were different. They were softer, more delicate, and invited us to recall the 1970s in a different hue than that of their blazing orange and gold counterparts.

While we love (and I mean LOVE) our wild and irreverent 1970s wallpapers, there is something refreshingly sweet and feminine about these Laura Ashley papers that has us falling head-over-heels for them as well.

Most of these papers are available for purchase by the yard from our Etsy store, but you can find a few in larger quantities on our Website too.

The scale of each design is very small. These papers would be excellent for just about any project, but their petite designs would work especially well for our customers who build and/or restore dollhouses. Authentic vintage papers with truly tiny prints can be hard to find! Here's a look at the other patterns that we have available:

09/13/2016

Making a business out of collecting something you love can actually be a bittersweet thing. Of course it's full of joy (i.e. that immediate excitement of discovering new papers), but with that joy also comes sadness (like the heartache of inevitably parting with that same paper later on down the road). We really do hate to say goodbye to our favorite papers...and that's why we haven't!

Throughout the last 20+ years that we've been collecting vintage wallpaper, when the time has come to at last say goodbye to a cherished pattern, we have kept a yard here or a partial roll there as a token to remember it by. These little remnants have been tucked away in boxes in our warehouse for safekeeping until a day when we can unwrap them to "ooo" and "aahh" and find something truly special to do with them.

As dreamy as that is for us, we have encountered a real problem---we have too many boxes!

So over the summer, we have been busily exchanging our boxes of remnants for a digital archive by photographing all of these saved patterns. That way, we can maintain a record of our favorite patterns from Hannah's Treasures' history in a safe, long-lasting format while also making room for more wallpaper discoveries--woohoo!

We've opened this shop as a way to clear out shelves in our warehouse and create space for new vintage papers. After we lovingly photograph each of these remnants that have been special to our history as a business, we are making them available as a single piece in our new store. We already have quite a few papers listed and will be adding more often, so please check it out!

Remnants and Rolls consists of vintage wallpaper remnants, ends of rolls, and partial rolls. Each paper available is the last remaining piece that we have of that specific pattern. As you browse, make sure to read the descriptions as each paper will vary in length according to what we had saved.

03/08/2016

We've already shared a few of our most recent vintage wallpaper findings in our last post, but we have even more goodies to share now!

1970s David & Dash Geometric

After recently picking up an assortment of vintage wallpaper in Pennsylvania, we've finally posted the papers to our website. You can find all of these at www.hannahstreasures.com.

1950s Fruit Kitchen Wallpaper

We love finding new loads of vintage wallpaper. It's a thrill and a joy every time to uncover vintage wallpaper patterns that are new to us entirely or maybe some that we just haven't seen in a very long time. We found both such types in Pennsylvania.

1970s Floral Vinyl Vintage Wallpaper

The wallpapers in our newest load range in date from the 1940s to the 1970s--a really nice mix that reflects the larger diversity of our collection as a whole. There are florals, geometrics, kitchen papers, bathroom papers, vinyls, mylars and more.

1950s Purple Floral

Here's a look at just a sampling of the different types of patterns:

1940s and 1950s

1940s Pink and Red Carnations

1940s Red Blue and Gray Kitchen Fruit

1950s Gray and Yellow Floral Botanical

1960s and 1970s

1970s Poppies and Daisies

1960s Green and White Lattice Geometric

Vinyls

1970s Red and Blue Geometric Vinyl

1970s Pastel Poppies Vinyl

Mylars

1970s David & Dash Geometric

1970s Floral Mylar

Childrens

Woodland Childrens Vintage Wallpaper

Old Lady in Shoe Childrens Wallpaper

There are many more new additions from this latest load on our website, along with over a thousand other patterns to explore. We love finding new patterns to include in our collection, and it's truly a pleasure to be able to offer them to you for your own unique projects. With the largest collection of authentic vintage wallpaper and an inventory that is constantly growing and changing, we're sure we have (or will soon have!) the perfect vintage paper for you.

02/16/2016

A couple of weeks ago, we received a tip about some vintage wallpaper in Pennsylvania. So in a whirl of excitement, we packed our bags and immediately headed East to a town near Hershey in search of the hidden trove of wallpaper.

Chasing vintage wallpaper is like being on a treasure hunt, it's always an exciting adventure. We met some lovely people, traveled through parts of the country we don't often see, and returned home with some truly beautiful papers.

It always takes us a while to process through new loads, but we wanted to share a first look of some of the wonderful things we found. These patterns are now available in our Etsy store.

There's more to come for the website, and we're excited to share those when they're up. For now, we hope you enjoy these.

01/06/2016

One of the things that makes vintage wallpaper so interesting is the vast array of paper types and printing methods that have been used to create it. With all of the varied designs and techniques, we end up with so many interesting types of wallpaper: vinyls, flocks, mylars, hand-prints, kraft papers, metallics (not to mentional traditional paper wallpaper). It's no wonder we adore it! Recently we came across an exciting new-to-our-collection type of vintage wallpaper...cork wallpaper!

These awesome cork wallpapers (yes, that's real cork!) were hand-made in Japan during the 70s. The papers are remarkably lightweight, made from thin pieces of cork arrayed on top of rice paper.

Some of the papers even have a metallic gold background, making them twice as nice.

The hand-made nature of the wallpaper and the cork material itself create beautiful variations in the color and texture of the pattern, which is a welcome contrast to the uniformity and precision of manufactured papers (both in vintage wallpapers and the papers made today).

All of these patterns are available in our Retro Wallpaper Etsy store by the yard, but they are in very limited quantities. Get them before they're gone!